Police in Connecticut have begun searching for a suspect who shot at children and hit a 12-year-old multiple times after the children pelted the suspect's car with snowballs last week.
Hartford police officers responded to a shooting around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday and found a 12-year-old boy injured, according to Hartford police.
Police said the victim and his 11-year-old friend were having a snowball fight outside when one of the snowballs struck a passing car.
The car swerved to chase the children, but the driver fired a gun at them, police said. said at a press conference on Thursday.
The 12-year-old boy suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and was taken to Connecticut Children's Medical Center. The 11-year-old boy was not injured.
As of Sunday, no suspects had been arrested and police were continuing to investigate.
Even though annual snowfall across the country is decreasing, snowpacks have proven to cause occasional problems over the years.
During a game against the Buffalo Bills at their home base in Buffalo, New York, during a snowstorm in early December, football fans went wild and rained snowballs on members of the San Francisco 49ers. Bills fans went wild again in late January during a game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
One town in Wisconsin took a different approach, banning snowball throwing altogether.
